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The wars & local soldiers, 1936

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Paris Romance. War Hero and Adelaide Nurse. Court Permit to Wed. Paris, Jan. 30

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 11

Colonel Edward Bryce, 65, winner of the D.S.O. (two bars), and commander of the Tank Corps during the war, has been granted permission by the French courts to marry an…

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Millionaires and their Press in Vicious Campaign Congress Against War Shows How to Struggle For Defence of Freedom, Culture, Progress

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 1

SYDNEY, Jan. 27.—The Third All-Australian Congress of the Movement Against War and Fascism resumed to-day for its concluding sessions, with Mrs. Baldwin (president of the N.S.W. Women’s Co-operative Guilds) in the chair…

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Sister Seeks to Prevent Soldier's Wedding to Australian Paris

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 1

LIEUT.-COLONEL EDWARD BRYCE, 65, winner of the D.S.O. with two bars and Tank Corps commander in the War,…

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Wounded Constable Terbutt Expected Out of Hospital on

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 1

Constable Jack Terbutt, who was shot on New Years Eve by a man fleeing from arrest, probably will leave Sydney Hospital next Monday…

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Men on the Tramp. Returned Soldiers. Proposed Concentration Camp Moss Vale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 18

The president of the Moss Vale sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League (Dr.Alcorn) declared to-day that it was the responsibility of the league executive to take up with the…

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Sensational Gaol "Break" Arms Smuggled Wild Battle 'Planes and Soldiers

The Sun · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 3

A SENSATIONAL but ill-fated gaol "break" is described by Courtney Cooper in this article of his series on the world's most desperate criminals. He continues the story of "Jelly" Frank Nash…

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Cushy Jobs Soldier Publican

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 16

MlNK was at. Mersah Matruh in Egypt in 1915-16. Was attached to 1st Australian Divisional Train Supplying Composite Squadrons (3) of…

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Why I Publish Smiths Weekly No Englishman Knows the -- Empire As Well As Edward Viii a King With a Post-War Mind Can March -- with Progress

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 12

ENGLAND'S Edward VIII, and the Empire's, served In the Great War when in his teens. His is definitely a post-war mind. For, although he saw the…

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War Veteran Guests at Coronation Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 3

The suggestion of the N.S.W. Returned Soldiers' League that a contingent of A.I.F. veterans be included in the Australian delegation to London for the Coronation of King Edward, was described to-day as "a very nice idea" by the Minister for Customs, Mr. White…

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Japan to Invade Australia on September 9! War Declaration Against England Forecast Retired Officer As Prophet LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 5

AUSTRALIANS had better paste the date, September 9, 1936, in their hats. An imaginative Japanese retired officer, Lieutenant-Commander Ishimaru, has written a book, "Japan Must Fight…

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Soldiers' Fund Is No. 1 Registered Under New Act

The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 15

Under the new Charitable Collections Act, the first certificate of registration has been issued to the United Returned Soldiers' Fund…

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Europe Is Sliding Into an Abyss of War Italian Paper's Warning Oil Embargo Must Lead To Slaughter Sensational Article Milan

Truth · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 18

"EUROPE is sliding down the incline of sanctions, at the bottom of which is war!" declares the "Popolo d'ltalia" in a sensational article which is attributed to Mussolini, and which appeals to students throughout Europe to…

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Warns Europe of "War of Slaughter" If Sanctions Tightened Italy Feeling Pressure, Calls to Youth Oil Embargo "Means Blockade" ROME

The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 1

PRESUMABLY because she feels the pressure of sanctions and fears that their more rigid application may affect disastrously her military campaign in Abyssinia, Italy is trying to frighten Europe with…

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Rifle Shooting. Club Matches at Anzac

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 15

Club matches were fired at Anzac Range, Liverpool, on Saturday. Conditions were good, the breeze requiring the use of from three to five degrees left at 500 yards. D. Mullery (Sydney), 100,…

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Bullet From Car Man Wounded in West Melbourne Street

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Detectives are investigating a mysterious shooting incident which occurred in Spencer Street. West Melbourne last night,…

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The Alarm of War

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 5

Hark! there's a sound of the trumpets, And the nations prepare for war. Soon we may have battle and carnage Far greater than ever before…

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Two Frenchmen. Comrades in War and Peace

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 8

Two Frenchmen who have seen France only as a shell-scarred battlefield reached Sydney by the Laperouse from New Caledonia on Saturday. They were Messrs. Dillenseger, a…

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War Pensions Repatriation of Amendment Auburn Secretary Informed

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 4

The following letter, of vital importance to returned men, has been received by the secretary of the Auburn branch of the R.S. and S.I.L.A…

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Aviation War in Papua Is to Cease Control Proposals By Ministry

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 8

CANBERRA, Sunday.--Unrestricted and unregulated monopoly of air services in Papua and New Guinea will not…

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Abyssinians Claim Big Victory Italian Division Is Wiped Out First Real Offensive of War Rome Issues Denial Addis Ababa

The Labor Daily · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 1

DECLARING that the Abyssinian troops for the first time during the war abandoned guerilla tactics and en masse met the only real Italian offensive so far in the greatest battle…

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